Partner, Investments – Distressed & Special Situations
Echo Base Global
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
About the role
- Source, evaluate, and execute distressed and special situations investment opportunities, including control acquisitions, claims-based strategies, and structured capital solutions
- Lead diligence efforts across financial, legal, operational, and technical dimensions in coordination with internal operating teams and external advisors
- Analyze capital structures, claims priority, and recovery outcomes across a range of restructuring and liquidation scenarios
- Build and maintain detailed financial, recovery, and downside models, including liquidation value, salvage value, and short-duration return outcomes
- Actively assess and execute opportunities involving distressed claims, including sourcing, pricing, and evaluating risk/reward across instruments
- Support transaction structuring, negotiation, and execution, including coordination and review of legal documentation
- Prepare investment committee materials, including investment thesis, valuation, value-creation plan, risk factors and mitigants, and exit scenarios
- Support post-close transition and value-creation initiatives, including restructurings, governance changes, and operational stabilization
- Own the realization of investment through strategic sales, earn outs, secondaries or other creative structures that meet Echo Base’s threshold returns.
Requirements
- 7–12 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, credit, or special situations, with substantial buy-side experience
- Deep experience in distressed, special situations, event-driven, or opportunistic investing, ideally with a control-oriented mandate
- Strong understanding of the mechanics of trading public and private claims, including sourcing, pricing, documentation, settlement, and recovery analysis
- Direct exposure to catalyst-driven situations such as insolvencies, restructurings, founder disputes, regulatory actions, security incidents, failed financings, or broken M&A processes
- Advanced understanding of bankruptcy, restructuring processes, claims trading, and recovery analysis
- Excellent financial modeling skills with emphasis on recoveries, liquidation value, salvage value, and short-duration outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in unique, fast-moving situations with incomplete information
- Comfort owning transactions end-to-end, including sourcing, diligence, structuring, execution, and post-close involvement
- Well-developed professional network across restructuring groups at major banks, advisory firms, and distressed-focused funds
- Experience in digital assets, crypto, or blockchain-based businesses preferred, but not required.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial modelingcapital structure analysisclaims tradingrecovery analysisdistressed investingevent-driven investingopportunistic investingtransaction structuringnegotiationliquidation analysis
Soft skills
leadershipanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationnetworkingadaptabilitystrategic thinkingcollaborationdecision-makingattention to detail